NLP in Biomedicine ACL 2003 Workshop Program (tentative)

Session 1 09:00-10:20
Time Presentation
09:00-09:05 Welcome and opening of the workshop (Prof. Jun-ichi Tsujii)
09:05-09:30 Morgan, A., Hirschman, L., Yeh, A. & Colosimo, M. "Gene Name Extraction Using FlyBase Resources"
09:30-09:55 Widdows, D., Stanley, P., Cederberg, S., Chan, C.K., Steffen, D. & Steffen, D. "Unsupervised Monolingual and Bilingual Word-Sense Disambiguation of Medical Documents using UMLS"
09:55-10:20 Spasic, I., Nenadic, G. & Ananiadou, S. "Using Domain-Specific Verbs for Term Classification"

Session 2 10:50-12:40
Time Presentation
10:50-11:05 Hou, W. J. & Chen, H.H. " Enhancing Performance of Protein Name Recognisers Using Collocation"
11:05-11:30 Lee, K.J., Hwang, Y.S. & Rim, H.C. "Two-Phase Biomedical NE Recognition based on SVMs"
11:30-11:55 Tsuruoka, Y. & Tsujii, J. "Boosting Precision and Recall of Dictionary-Based Protein Name Recognition"
11:55-12:10 Shen, D., Zhang, J., Zhou, G., Su, J. & Tan, C.L. "Effective Adaptation of Hidden Markov Model-based Named Entity Recognizer for biomedical Domain"
12:10-12:25 Koichi, T. & Collier, N. "Bio-medical Entity Extraction Using Support Vector Machines"
12:25-12:40 Yamamoto, K., Kudo, T., Konagaya, A. & Matsumoto, Y. "Protein Name Tagging for Biomedical Annotation in Text"

Session 3 14:00-15:45
Time Presentation
14:00-14:50 Invited speaker Friedman, C. "Opportunities and Challenges for NLP in Biomedicine"
14:50-15:05 Niu, Y., Hirst, G., McArthur, G. & Rodriguez-Gianolli, P. "Answering Clinical Questions with Role Identification"
15:05-15:30 Mendonca, E.A., Haas, J., Shagina, L. Larson, E. & Friedman, C. "Detecting Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants Using Natural Language Processing of Radiology Reports"
15:30-15:45 Pakhomov, S.V., Buntrock, J. & Chute, C. "Identification of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure using a Binary Classifier: a Case Study"

Session 4 16:10-17:30
Time Presentation
16:10-16:25 Erjavec, T., Kim, J.D., Ohta, T., Tateisi, Y. & Tsujii, J. " Encoding Biomedical Resources in TEI: The Case of the GENIA Corpus"
16:25-16:40 Bodenreider, O. & Pakhomov, S. "Exploring Adjectival Modification in Biomedical Discourse Across Two Genres"
16:40-16:55 Torii, M., Kamboj, S. & Vijay-Shanker, K. " An Investigation of Various Information Sources for Classifying Biological Names"
16:55-17:10 Nenadic, G., Rice, S., Spasic, I., Ananiadou, S. & Stapley, B. "Selecting Features for Text-based Classification: from Documents to Terms"
17:10-17:30 Closing Session